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I hope you've been cutting flowers from your garden! If you have you're likely seeing second and third rounds of roses, cosmos, even foxgloves and delphinium. If you haven't things may be tipping over and going to seed and that's great too! A yard that's a bit wild and messy is a treat for birds and pollinators and the flowers are doing the work of seeding next years flowers for you. I'm a big advocate of low maintenance gardening; if you don't get to the pre-emptive deadheading of cutting flowers in their prime, go ahead and leave them. Gardening is supposed to be an enjoyable pastime not yet another mile long to-do list;go easy on yourself! So many people I...

My goodness, where does the time go? Trying really hard to be kind to myself for not having been here since April. And when I was I barely typed one line. I really thought that posting once a month would be feasible.I'm pretty accustomed to all of May disappearing but I feel like so much time has passed in a blur this year. I thought maybe if I just slowed down enough to write about what was blooming and showing up in my arrangements each month it would be a way to mark the time. Then we got into wedding season and now there's so many things blooming and so many different things going into my arrangements I don't even...

The year round cutting garden.... Hopefully the third times the charm; I've tried typing this up and posting it and it keeps disappearing (???)so, here we go, again (at least for me) I am often asked what I would plant if I wanted to ALWAYS have something lovely to cut. Mind you, I am not a gardener but, I am eternally grateful to those who are; whether it's professionally or as a pastime. Without them I would have so much less available to me as plants and flowers are both my medium and my muse. I'm blessed to live in the Pacific Northwest where we have small flower farms popping up all over and some lovely friends that let me...

The year round cutting garden.... While the winter months are certainly leaner and less bountiful than spring, summer and even autumn there is still plenty of beauty out in the natural world. As promised, every month I'm going to list a few suggestions of what I would put in my garden to ensure I would always have something beautiful to cut and play with. By the end of the year we should have a whole roster of lovely perenniels that once planted will come back year after year better each time; many of which actually perform better as a result of occasional pruning. We are still in what I like to call stick season. Blooming branches are everywhere! The trick...

Waaaaay back in 1999 I was about to experience my very first Valentine's Day as a florist. I was trying to wrap my brain around what to buy with pretty much zero guidance from my boss; a business owner who'd already checked out and had apparently been trying to sell the business for the entiriety of my 9 months working there. I'd been in charge of buying for a few months and was told I should just order what they'd ordered last year because they'd sold out. Sold out? But then, shouldn't we buy more? Well, no, they just wanted to sell out because they hadn't found a buyer and planned to close after Valentine's Day UNLESS- I wanted to...